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#1 2006-09-09 22:33:12

espeon
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whats ftp again?

devante u posted in the forum fan site something about a ftp soz but what i that again?


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#2 2006-09-09 22:39:25

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Re: whats ftp again?

FTP = File Transfer Protocol

To try and put it in the simplest words I can (hmm...), it means that you can put and change things on your site all by yourself. Without any of that Invision stuff.

Understand? smile

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#3 2006-09-10 02:41:33

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Re: whats ftp again?

http: hyper text transfer protocol.  You can transfer hypertext.  Hypertext is the stuff that makes up websites such as <b></b> for making words bold, or <table></table> for making tables.  But you can't tranfser anything but hypertext with it.

ftp: File transfer protocol.  Exactly the same as http, but with files.  So you can tranfser a file from your computer to another.  Or you can delete files from other computers.  This allows, as Devante said, to transfer an entire file to a website, instead of having to go to the server and make changes on it.  It also allows me to access all my files from another computer since I have an ftp server running on my computer.


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#4 2006-09-10 02:53:46

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Re: whats ftp again?

And an even bigger advantage is the ability to make as many directories (depending on your host) as you want.

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#5 2006-09-10 06:35:40

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Re: whats ftp again?

o ok


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#6 2006-09-10 11:05:01

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Re: whats ftp again?

If you get some ftp software on your PC, and you know the name and password of the "ftp" location where your website is, then you can copy files to the server almost like you copy files around your own computer.

So you could "ftp" the file to the server, then you could see it on the web.

You can also delete, rename etc.


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#7 2006-09-10 18:31:03

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Re: whats ftp again?

And the most important thing of all that stumps most people, it that your homepage/index page must be named index.html.

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#8 2006-09-11 03:19:16

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Re: whats ftp again?

dont worry its ok


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#9 2006-09-11 04:14:17

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Re: whats ftp again?

Devanté wrote:

And the most important thing of all that stumps most people, it that your homepage/index page must be named index.html.

Nope.  That is a setting for a server.  It can be anything you want it to be.


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#10 2006-09-11 04:46:53

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Re: whats ftp again?

My mistake. Yes, that is in fact the setting for the server. But you can still change it.

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#11 2006-09-12 03:15:06

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Re: whats ftp again?

dw


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